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| For Your Consideration: Julien Hucq – Light Blue Julien Hucq featuring Claudio Roditi, George Cables, Victor Lewis, Marcos Varela Light Blue For Your Consideration Best Instrumental Jazz Album Marcos Varela: Bass Victor Lewis: Drums George Cables: Piano Claudio Roditi: Trumpet Julien Hucq: Alto Saxophone All five musicians play on each track: 1 — MUDD'S MODE (M. Bass) 2 — LIGHT (J. Hucq) 3 — THIS ONE IS FOR US (C. Roditi / R. Silveira) 4 — HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY (J. Burke /J. V. Heusen) 5 — LIGHT BLUE (T. Monk) 6—X (J. Hucq) Produced by Julien Hucq and John Lee Executive Producer: Mickey Bass / Early Bird Records Recorded on Tues. March 19, 2019 at Alleycat Studio, South Orange, NJ Recorded, mixed and mastered by John Lee Label: Early Bird Records Official US release date on JazzWeek: January 1, 2020 UPC - 0684753992920 New York-based alto saxophonist Julien Hucq leads this exquisite band to produce, in collaboration with award-winning producers Mickey Bass of Early Bird Records and John Lee of Alleycat Studio, a remarkable collection of timeless pieces. Light Blue is Julien Hucq's 8th album as a bandleader. The album contains six songs that are performed by world-renowned artists, with four original compositions, one unique arrangement of a jazz standard and a classic bebop tune. This album delivers for the jazz enthusiast, one track after another. Instrumental Jazz CD of the Month - Julien Hucq: Light Blue Arnaldo DeSouteiro, Jazz Station (U.S.) JAZZIZ Weekly Discover Playlist, January 2020 (U.S.) Belgian saxophonist, composer and arranger Julien Hucq has made a superlative, grooving CD, "Light Blue". Steve Monroe, Jazz Avenues (U.S.) "Light Blue is an impressive album: its ensembles simultaneously tight and graceful, its solos expressive." Michael Ullman, The Arts Fuse (U.S.) "This is a delightful straight-ahead CD by alto saxophonist Julien Hucq." Norman Vickers, Jazz Pensacola (U.S.) "Employing the line-up of these iconic musicians, how can reedman, Julien Hucq, present us with anything but a powerful and enjoyable project? … Julien Hucq's alto saxophone glides through the changes… like warm honey, sweet and fluid during his solo." Dee Dee McNeil, Musicalmemoirs (blog) (U.S.) "This disc is magnificent." Jacques Muyal, co-founder of Laser Swing Productions (Switzerland) "Hucq makes timeless jazz, the CD was recorded in March 2019, but could have come from the sixties or seventies… Hucq has a delicious cork-dry sound without vibrato, old-fashioned and beautiful, and he plays fluently like mercury silver. His sound is even reminiscent of the young Charlie Mariano of the early fifties." Tom Beetz, Jazzflits Magazine (The Netherlands) http://www.jazzflits.nl/jazzflits18.01.pdf write your comments about the article :: © 2020 Jazz News :: home page |